IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-06-01

IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-08-17

<antrik> youpi: no, only the -g is redundant; i.e. -ga is the same as -a
<antrik> (actually, not redundant, but rather simply meaningless in this
case)
<antrik> -g tells what to do with an active translator *when a passive one
is changed*
<antrik> if no passive one is changed, it does nothing
<antrik> (and I realized that after using the Hurd for only 6 years or so
;-) )
<braunr> it's not obvious
<antrik> braunr: indeed. it's not obvious at all from the --help output :-(
<antrik> not sure though how to make it clearer
<braunr> the idea isn't obvious
<braunr> perhaps telling that "setting a passive translator" also applies
to removing it, i.e. setting it to none
<antrik> braunr: well, the fact that a translator is unset by setting it to
nothing is unclear in general, not only for passive translator. I agree
that pointing this out should make things much more clear in general...

IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-08-29

<teythoon> btw, I somehow feel settrans is being abused for chroot and
friends, there is no translator setting involved
<youpi> chroot, the command? or the settrans option?
<youpi> I don't understand what you are pointing at
<teythoon> the settrans option being used by fakeroot, remap and (most
likely) our chroot
<youpi> our chroot is just a file_reparent call
<youpi> fakeroot and remap do start a translator

<teythoon> yes, but it is not being bound to a node, which is (how I
understand it) what settrans does
<teythoon> the point being that if settrans is being invoked with --chroot,
it does something completely different (see the big if (chroot) {...}
blocks)
<teythoon> to a point that it might be better of in a separate command
<youpi> Mmm, indeed, a lot of the options don't make sense for chroot

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